Bristol’s SCALER return with particulars of their extremely anticipated new album, Endlessly. The information follows the discharge of Damaged Entry in April and their signing to Black Acre (residence to Commodo, Sully, Karen Nyame KG, Waldo’s Present, Crimewave, and extra), who will launch the album on twenty sixth September 2025. Pre-order HERE
Made up of Alex Hill, Isaac Jones, James Rushforth and Nick Berthoud, alongside visible artist Jason Baker, Endlessly is SCALER’s second album, formally following 2022’s acclaimed Void. It led to a 2023 double A-side single with Daniel Avery (Loam / New Symbols) that expanded on their extra club-wise impulses with a slew of remix tasks shared over time, that includes boundary-hoppers corresponding to Laurel Halo, Bruce, and Azu Tiwaline. It additionally meant extra probabilities to play out their formidable, now-stuff-of-legend reside present, together with an ArcTanGent headline, a Shangri-La shutdown at Glastonbury, and performances at Boomtown, Inexperienced Man, Finish Of The Highway, ADE, Nuits Sonores, and lots of extra.
Following Damaged Entry, immediately the group share Salt, with Haruna, a primary instance combining digitally manipulated vocal melodies, sweeping glitched out synths, restrained hi-speed rhythms, and distorted bass. ”Collaboration was central to the creation of this album, and Akiko was the primary artist we reached out to,” the band says. ”We’ve been long-time followers of her vocals, sound design, and manufacturing, and dealing collectively has been one thing we’ve needed to do for a very long time, so we’re thrilled it lastly got here to life. We had this sparse and haunting observe that felt like the right canvas for Akiko. From the second we heard her preliminary concepts, we knew we had one thing particular and couldn’t wait to share it.” Take heed to Salt HERE.
”Salt is a mirrored image on the cycles an individual can get trapped in when disgrace turns into each a punishment and a launch. When guilt weighs heavy, they could chase consolation in acquainted patterns: in search of management by self-destruction, depth over numbness, and recognition at any value. This observe got here from piecing collectively quiet warnings, studying to belief instinct and witnessing what would possibly occur when somebody confuses feeling seen with being uncovered,” Haruna says, talking on the themes behind the only.
AA”Disgrace can threaten a way of identification, preying on the necessity for connection and belonging. It’s prevented by blame, denial, or withdrawal, or deliberately looked for catharsis – a instrument to ‘repay’ guilt or atone for previous wrongs. Exposing the rejected components of ourselves can really feel like reclaiming management. Disgrace can affirm unfavourable self-beliefs and create a way of consistency. When self-inflicted, it may really feel safer than exterior judgement, providing depth, familiarity, or a method to break by emotional numbness. Finally, it may really feel extra ‘actual’ than acceptance, creating an internal battle: concern and reduction in rejection adopted by resentment towards those that settle for us.” Take heed to Salt HERE.
Highly effective and speedy, like a raised pulse below taut pores and skin, Endlessly tugs at emotional threads and sonic touchpoints that really feel twisted up – intentionally so – within the musical heritage of their metropolis. There are traces of trip-hop, drum‘n’bass and experimental digital, plus flashes of pupil-dilating techno, steel and drill, all carried by immense low-end stress and tempered by extra subdued, spatial stretches that drift and sprawl. Voices layer and loop, instrumentals do the identical.
A chance for SCALER to sharpen the instruments they’ve used most – the instincts of rock, steel and hardcore, the language of dance music – whereas taking a extra intentional strategy, Endlessly is an album made to be skilled as an album: an enthralling journey from begin to end, one thing to soak in. That was a key focus early on. ”To take our substances and package deal them in a extra listenable format,” Hill explains.
That ‘early on’ was some three years in the past now. Most of Endlessly took form within the time that adopted – save for just a few concepts that had been free within the SCALER ether for a short time – with the majority recorded at Bristol’s legendary The Louisiana, an intimate, impartial venue with a basement studio.
They labored with shut pal (and former reside band member) Alfie Tyson-Brown, an ”engineer extraordinaire” with whom they share a ”type of telepathic relationship”. Lengthy-time collaborator Sean Oakley dealt with mixing, with photographer Sandra Ebert becoming a member of Baker in bringing its paintings to life.
The communal nature of the album is available in some ways as a direct response to how Void got here collectively. That interval might be summed up, briefly, as locked down, aside and in what they describe as ”extremely hostile” circumstances. Endlessly, although, feels extra settled – excitingly so. Much less a calling card for the IRL SCALER expertise (although their exhibits nonetheless come hotly tipped) and extra a postcard from the place they’re headed subsequent. That broader horizon, no ceiling in sight.
”Endlessly actually seems like our first actual album,” concludes the band. ”Not like our debut, which was made in isolation throughout Covid lockdowns, with this file we got down to embrace collaboration and convey folks collectively. Consequently, this file is formed by many minds, working collectively to seek out cohesion between the various artwork and music that conjures up us. It’s our most expansive, dynamic, and absolutely realised physique of labor to this point, and one we’re extremely pleased with.”
Contributors from Bristol and past, together with Akiko Haruna, Artwork Faculty Girlfriend, Tlya X An, Shadow Stevie, Chilly Mild’s ELDON and ”techno wizard” Thomas Ridley, add new color to the band’s darkened palette and level to the left-turns they’re leaning into. ”This file is type of the one we needed to make the entire time,” says Rushforth.
And perhaps the one they all the time wanted to.
Take a look at the visualiser for Salt under –
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Having simply completed a packed-out EU tour with And So I Watch You From Afar and Robocobra Quartet, the band have additionally immediately introduced particulars of a UK headline tour for November 2025 – their first since 2023.
Dates:
2nd August – Bristol, UK – Queens Sq. supporting IDLES
sixth November – London, UK – Electrowerkz
eleventh November – Glasgow, UK – Room 2
twelfth November – Newcastle, UK – Cluny 2
thirteenth November – Manchester, UK – Pink Room
14th November – Sheffield, UK Sidney & Matilda Galler
seventeenth November – Birmingham, UK – Hare & Hounds
18th November – Leeds, UK – Brudenell
nineteenth November – Cardiff, UK – Clwb Ifor Bach
Tour date data HERE
Endlessly Tracklisting-
1.quiet when it speaks
2. Salt ft. Akiko Haruna
3. Damaged Entry
4. Mirage ft. Artwork Faculty Girlfriend
5. (yearn)
6. Evolve ft. Tlya X An
7. Chilly Storage
8. Sinking In ft. Shadow Stevie
9. Salvation ft. ELDON
10. Ravine
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